Constant speed motor system



Aug, 13, 1946. V QGURKQWSKi v 2,4G5fi08 CONSTANT SPEED'MCTOR S'YSTEM Filed D90. 27, 1943 INVENTOR GEORGES Oar/mow ATTORN EY UNIT ED. STAT ES Patented Aug. 13, 1946 2,405,708- 7 CONSTANT SPEED Morton SYSTEM Georges Ogurkowski, Zug, Schonbuhl, Switzerland, assignor to Landis &- Gyr A. G., a body corporate of Switzerland Application December 27, 1943-, SerialYNo. 515,788

PATENT OFFICE 111 Switzerland December 11, 1942.

2 Claims Devices for remote tariff control with audiofrequent control Currents superimposed; on the network require exact constancy of 'the control frequency. The special reason for this resides in the fact that the blocking elements preventing the energy at the checking places from leaving the resonance curve.

pulses of, say 0.3 s. duration are pickediip.

2v oftheaudio-irequency generator, said voltage being proportional to the mechanical brake moment ofthe; generator. This voltage is in phase with the line voltage and is transmitted as the regulating voltage through the frequency converter over to the rotor circuit of the asynchronous m0- tor toexert a driving moment therein. The magnitude of this driving moment is such that the sum of the torques developedin all the three machines by the load of the audio frequency genera- The audio- The If;thev voltage E3=0, We. obtain l0 line to be controlled possessan exceedingly sharp t i a nea to zero as possible Another reason for the high The nature of theinvention will be understood constancy of e controlfrequo cyl o hl e i from the following specification taken with the Y D ho noe d selectivity of the reoeiyer r ays i accompanying drawing in which one embodiment I is illustrated byway of; example.

As prime mover for the audio-frequency gen: In the drawing, the numeral I denotes an asynerators a combination of; a. t e -ph se, syn: chronous motor driving across a shaft 2 on the chronous motor and a special machineis-part cur one hand a frequency converter 31 and on the larly convenient, this machine impressing onto other handan audio-frequency generator 4; The the rotor of theasynchronous motor anaddition l system is fed; through a network 5; In the stator regulating voltage of slip frequency. This special circuit of the asynchronous motor there is a machine consists of a frequency convertor that is switch I. From network 5 a lead goes across a av D. "C. armature with slip ring connections rospeed regulating transformer 8 and the secondta in in a coil-less stator. Preferably, however, ary winding of the compound transformer [5 over s freq y Q Q l be R Y with tothe slip rings 9 of the frequency convertor 3. a compensating winding onthe stator havin v o A compensating winding l I of the frequency conitsduty to nullify the field established by. the-r0 vertor 3'lies on the one hand oncollector H! of tor currentsinthe armature. Thus, for enorsi the frequency convertor and; on the other hand, hog-the qu ncy l or, uld. be ec ssary across aline I2, on slip rings l3'of the asynchrononly e m t r. ap ti E e r eistun o s motor I. so that thewho e arrangement may then be. c n- Numeral 4 designates. anaudio-frequency gentrolled without any substantial loss ofenergy. erator driven through the shaft 2.

here how v r ah 3 10 1. 9.; his drivi frequency generator 4 is'put on network 5 across method in that the drop in sneedtherebyensuine a switch [4 and a series-transformer i5. between no-1oad and fullload isexactly equivar stabilizedaudioefrequency voltageisderiyedfrom lent to that of a normal motor, Asinthe nature the slip rings [6 of the audio-frequency generaof things a frequencyvariationisinvolved thorfir tor 4 and carried to a network IT. with which naturally is of thesame order asthe The effect of the known arrangement is as folslipped number of revolutions'i. e., about 3 4%,, lows: care must be taken either to nullify completely 40 On the shaft 2 of the asynchronous motor I a this drop in speed or to compound it by n. r.- frequency convertorv 3 rides, being compensated rangement whatsoever. This phenomenon; proor not according to requirement. The convertor (111.688 ap l rly disa reeable eficctwith t e has for its duty toconveyto the asynchronous y ous selection method in which S o motor the regulating voltage E4 oifslip frequency.

This permits regulation of the number of revoluo o d t the invention, With s stomsvusin tions over a specified range when the adjustable y o l -f q ncy r t r. for voltage E3 with the network frequency is conveyed producing the audio-frequency, the additional to the slip rings 9 through the speed regulating regulatingvoltageis no longer derived fromthe transformer 8. s at r cir u t f thea n r ou m t r. utis a the normal speed characteristic of the asynfunction of the exciting currentofthe drifven auchronousmotor. If E3 possesses a declared value die-frequency generator so that speed variations so that E4 counteracts the induced rotor voltage, are entirely nullified. Thiscanbe accomplisht. the resultis the characteristic sub-synchronous byv providing means which generates a voltaggi operation. If E4 acts in the opposite way so that from the powercomponent of thae rciting current E iactsinphase with the induced rotor voltage effect of compounding by the compound transformer I5. In prior art, the additional regulating voltage E3 is produced by the stator current of the asynchronous motor I and hence is de-,

pendent on slip. Closer contemplations, however,

show that a full compounding with normal means is impossible. The compound transformer l5 as well as the frequency convertor 3 become bulky and expensive, even if a substantial drop of speed is allowed for.

It should be noted that only the component of the regulating voltage lying in phase with the rotor voltage of the asynchronous motor has for its effect a change of speed, as the ohmic component of the rotor current alone develops torque. The reactive component of the regulating voltage sets up more or less wattless currents at the stator end of the asynchronous motor without, however, affecting the torque or the number of revolutions. In practice, this sharp separation does not occur; rather does the reactive component of the regulating voltage, too, act to provide speed-regulating in a certain range of the load. inversely, in other load ranges, the watt or active component of the regulating voltage also acts as phase-compensating upon the stator current of the asynchronous motor. These phenomena, however, are not taken into consideration here as being immaterial. v

To make the invention well understood a somewhat closer reference to certain properties of the asynchronous audio-frequency generator must be made. It is known that every induction machine represents a universal transformer liable to be modified as voltage-, phaseor frequency convertor, so that thereby a higher frequency may likewise be attained. For this purpose a standard induction machine is utilized bearing multipolar three-phase windings on its stator and rotor. If it is intended to derive higher frequency currents from the rotor, it has to be driven contrariwise to the stator rotary field.

Suppose now f1 be the frequency of the exciting voltage, f2 the frequency of the produced audiofrequency voltage, and p the pole-pair number of the machine, then i2 is determined by the relative speed of rotary field and rotor Winding, viz: 2= 1+ m; 5fz=f1+% For a 18-polar machine (11:9) would be for instance: f2=500 cycles per second with 12:3000 R. P. M. and f1=50 cycles per second.

The slip of the generator is thereby seen to be as follows. Let m be the synchronous number of revolutions with the frequency ii, that is to say f1=% the slip is then s and as n=n,,,s=

second so that s=10%.

The capacity balance of the asynchronous audio-frequency generator with negligible losses may be simply represented as follows, if 1121 denotes the number of the primary windings on the stator, 202 the number of the secondary windings on the rotor, the flux per pole-pair, grthe E. M. F. induced per phase in the stator, and the E. M. F. induced per phase in the rotor:

f As further, by ignoring the magnetizing cur-- rent th mechanical output Wm of the shaft.

cally led real power If by means of high-speed regulators, &c, measures are taken to keep constant the primary frequency, f1, the primary voltage E1 and the mechanical speed am, this distinctly signifies that the active component of the primary exciting current is proportional to the mechanical moment of the generator.

The above summarized properties of the asynchronous audio-frequency generator are applied for producing that voltage which as additional regulating voltage brings forward the required action in the asynchronous motor I This consists in the fact that by the aforementioned regulating voltage a starting moment is exerted in the asynchronous motor which is exactly equal in magnitude to the brake moment ensuing by the load of the audio-frequency generator. As in this event the sum of all the torques developed by the load, no variation of speed occurs.

According to this invention, in this exciter circuit, however, there is now the series-transformer l5 which conveys to the slip rings 9 the additional regulating voltage E3 which depends no longer on the stator current of the asynchronous motor, but upon the exciting current of the audiofrequency generator 4. According to what precedes the latter is driven against its rotary field and produces at the slip ring end E6 the audiofrequent voltage E5 of the frequency f2 which is conveyed to the consumers. Further, by the aid of the speed-regulating transformer 8 any subor hyper-synchronous number of revolutions may be set within the regulating range given by the voltage E3.

With unloaded audio-frequency generator the voltage E3=0; the no-load speed being determined by the speed-regulating transformer 8 alone. As soon as a voltage arises on the secondary end of the series-transformer l5 (i. e., upon excitation of the audio-frequency generator 4), the additional regulating voltage appears at a definite amount according to the load and lumps together WithEs tothe exciting voltage E3" of the frequency convertor. Thereby, as with sub-synchronous operation in general, the voltage E3 will provide for itself alone a rotor voltage E4 which counteracts the rotor voltage of the asynchronous motor. E3 has then to be so set as to counteract the pressure E3.

The operation may still be disclosed by a concrete example. Let switch 14 first be open and E1=500 V=const., f1=50 cycles per second=const.

Assume further the turns ratio of the windings between stator and rotor of the asynchronous motor be "11:1:1, and the no-load speed subsynchronously set at by means of the voltage E3. The rotor voltage is then E4m=50 volts. At no-load, too, the voltage of the frequency convertor E4FUE50 volts being put against the pressure Emit, so that actually only a slight voltage difference remains effectual in the rotor circuit which provides the necessary current for the torque of the losses to be covered. As EtEEs, hence must also E3=E3", as at the outset E3'=0, consequently E3250 volts. The resistance in the rotor circuit is now supposed to be so that the asynchronous motor considered by itself develops the full torque with a slip of s:3%, for which a rotor voltage of 0.03-500= volts is required in order to produce the rotor current in the rotor winding.

Assume now the switch I4 be closed and the audio-frequency generator thereby excited so that the audio-frequency energy flows across I! to the consumer, which, let us say, puts up such a resistance that by considering the energy flowing via M the full torque is set up on the shaft, which in this case must be of the same magnitude as the driving or starting moment of the motor with a slip of s=3%. According to the above prerequisite a current flows thereby in the stator of the audio-frequency generator whose active component should be J1,,,=2.6 A. On the secondary end of the current transformer |5Which for adjusting the phase may consist of an induction regulator-a voltage E3=15 volts is thereby supposed to be produced being in counter-phase with the voltage E3, so that on the slip rings 9 of the frequency convertor a further potential E3"=35 volts comes into action, By this E4 is momentarily reduced to 35 volts. Consequently an excess of voltage of 15 volts occurs at once in the rotor, which according to what precedes, supplies the rotor current for the full torque of the asynchronous motor.

One salient feature of the invention resides in the fact that for producing the control va1ue-in this case of the regulating voltage E3'no slip is required, that is to say the tripping of the driving moment ensues directly from the driven end, i. e. from the audio-frequency generator. Hence it is possible to set up an ideal shunt characteristic without having to fear instabilities, A further advantage is that the starting moment occurs instantaneously with the brake moment. Apart from short transient effects the regulating performance happens momentarily. Consequently the arrangement appears suitable also for objects which are liable to load jerks between 0 and full load, say remote control plants on the synchronous selection method. Another feature appears in that the reactive component in the control current J1 does not affect the regulation or, if it does, extremely small in amount, It may, for instance, be highly possible that the audiofrequency generator has to give off quite an appreciable inductive audio-frequency power which, naturally, is derived in part from the exciting current, i. e., from the network. This reactive component, however, merely causes a phase shift of the stator current in the driving motor.

Obviously, in lieu of the current transformer 15 any other device may be employed which supplies a potential in phase and proportional to the watt component of the current J1, say induction regulators, adjustable ring transformers, networks consisting of resistances, inductivities and capacities, thermionic valve amplifiers, separate exciters for the frequency convertor, automatic or highspeed regulators, 8:0. I

Furthermore, it is immaterial whether the frequency convertor be provided with a compensation coil or not. In the case of a compensated frequency converter it must merely be taken into account that this likewise develops a torque, thus modifying the working conditions insofar as the sum of the torques for all the three machines has to be equal to zero.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:

1. A frequency converting system comprising a three-phase induction motor and a three-phase induction generator driven thereby, said motor and generator having rotor windings and stator windings, means for exciting the stator windings of said motor and generator at one frequency, the generator rotor being driven against the rotating field produced by excitation of the stator windings, a frequency converter connected to be driven by said motor, said converter having stator and rotor windings, means for exciting the rotor winding of said converter at said one frequency, means for feeding slip frequency potentials induced in said converter rotor winding to said motor rotor winding, said converter exciting potential being just large enough to provide a counter E. M. F. in the motor rotor so that power loss due to slip frequency is minimized, means for deriving a potential proportional to the generator exciting power, and means for applying said potential to said frequency converter, said potential deriving means being so arranged that said lastnamed potential is opposed to the excitation potential of said frequency converter and is so proportioned that as the generator load varies the counter E. M, F. applied to the winding of the motor rotor varies inversely to maintain a constant slip speed in the motor.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the means for deriving a potential comprises a transformer whose primary winding is in the generator exciting circuit, and whose secondary winding is in the exciting circuit of the frequency converter.

GEORGES OGURKOWSKI. 

